Scientific CV in PDF format - IMP

Curriculum Vitae: Ass. Prof. Dr. Alipasha Vaziri
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP),
Center for Molecular Biology & Research Platform
Quantum Phenomena and Nanoscale Biological Systems (QuNaBioS),
University of Vienna
Phone: +431-79730-3540
Email: vaziri@imp.ac.at | Web: www.vaziria.com
EDUCATION
01/2003 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Vienna, summa cum laude, PhD thesis: Quantum
Experiments using Higher Dimensional Entangled Photon States with
Singularities with Prof. Anton Zeilinger
06/2000 M.Sc. in Physics, University of Vienna, summa cum laude, Masters thesis:
Conservation of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Entangled Photon States
with Singularities with Prof. Anton Zeilinger
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
01/ 2013 – present Head – Interfaculty Research Platform Quantum phenomena and Nanoscale
Biological Systems (QuNaBioS), University of Vienna
10/2012 – present Fellow - Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg zur Berlin)
04/2011 – present Ass. Prof. and Group Leader - University of Vienna, Center for Molecular Biology
& Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) - Multi-scale understanding of
biological function: High speed control and imaging of neuronal activity, superresolution
imaging, quantum effects in bimolecular complexes
10/2008 – 12/2012 Visiting Scientist - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Visiting
Scientist at Department of Chemistry collaborator Prof. Andrei Tokmakoff
04/2007 – 04/2011 Research Specialist - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research
Campus – Developing new structural and functional bio-imaging techniques, 3D
super-resolution microscopy and circuit neuroscience using optogenetics
11/2005 - 04/2007 Associate – McKinsey & Company Strategic business consultant high-tech sector
12/2003 - 08/2005 Postdoctoral Researcher - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
& University of Maryland - with Dr. William Phillips, quantum resonances in a
sodium Bose Einstein Condensates (BEC)
01/2003 - 12/2003 Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Vienna - with Prof. Anton Zeilinger,
experiments in quantum information with entangled photons
09/2000 - 01/2003 Research Scientist and Assistant Lecturer - University of Vienna –
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2012 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigators’ Award
2010 WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Award
2003 PhD Summa cum Laude
FUNDED PROJECTS
2013 Head & PI - Funding and establishment an Interfaculty Research Platform, Quantum phenomena
and Nanoscale Biological Systems (QuNaBiS) between the Department of Physics and Center for
Molecular Biology
2012 Co-PI on joint project “In Vivo Functional Imaging and High-Resolution Manipulations of
Hippocampal Memory Circuits” between University of Vienna, Columbia University, University

of Texas and University of Strasbourg – Funded by Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
Young Investigators’ Award
2010 PI - Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators, startup funds to return to Vienna and
establish a research group at the interface between physics and biology “Multiscale
Understanding of Biological Function” – Funded by WWTF
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY SERVICE
Organizer of 2013 international workshop Quantum Effects in Biological Systems (QuEBS)
Member of the faculty board at Max Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna
Active and frequent referee for publications in: Nature Methods, Cell Reports, Physical Review
Letters, Physical Review A, Optics Express, Journal of Biomedical Optics, SPIE, Elsevier
publications, Journal of Neurophysiology, Optics Letters, Journal of Optics
Member of the paper sorters committee for 2005 Meeting of the American Physical Society
Peer reviewer of research application for Volkswagenstiftung, W.M. Keck Foundation
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch research council), Danish
Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences (FNU) and Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS & INVITED TALKS & PATENTS
• 25publications in ISI ranked journals, 1 Nature, 1 Nature Neuroscience, 1 Nature Methods, 3 PNAS,
6 PRL
• Citation record as of 05/20/2013 from ISI Web of Knowledge 25 |Total citations: 1723 | h factor: 14
• 55 invited talks at conferences, colloquia and seminars
• 1 patent
TOP 10 PUBLICATIONS SORTED BY YEAR
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 22, 128 (2012), A. Vaziri and V. Emiliani, Reshaping the Optical
dimension in Optogenetics
New Journal of Physics, 13 113030 (2011), Z. Ganim, A. Tokmakoff and A. Vaziri, Vibrational excitons in
ionophores; Experimental probes for quantum coherence-assisted ion transport and selectivity in ion
channels
Nature Methods, 8, 327–333 (2011), A. York, A. Ghitani, A. Vaziri, M. Davidson and H. Shroff, Confined
Activation and Model-Independent Subdiffractive Localization Enables Whole-Cell PALM with
Genetically Expressed Probes
Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 13, 967 (2010), A. Losonczy, B. Zemelman, A. Vaziri and J. Magee, Network
mechanisms of theta related neuronal activity in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons
New Journal of Physics, 12, 085001 (2010), A. Vaziri and M. Plenio, Quantum resonances in the ionchannels;
Resonances, Transport and Verification
PNAS, Vol. 107, 11981 (2010), B. Andrasfalvy, B. Zemelman, J. Tang and A. Vaziri, Two-photon
Optogenetic Control of Neural Activity with Single Synapse Precession by Sculpted Light
PNAS, Vol. 105, 51, 20221 (2008), A. Vaziri, J. Tang, H. Shroff and C. Shank, Multilayer Threedimensional
Super-resolution Imaging in Thick Biological Samples
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 170406 (2006), M. F. Andersen, C. Ryu, P. Claude, V. Natarajan, A. Vaziri, K.
Helmerson and W. D. Phillips, Quantized Rotation of Atoms from Photons with Orbital Angular
Momentum
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 89 Nr. 24 240401-1 (2002), A. Vaziri, G. Weihs and A. Zeilinger, Experimental Two-
Photon Three-Dimensional Quantum Entanglement
Nature 412, 313 (2001), A. Mair, A. Vaziri, G. Weihs and A. Zeilinger, Entanglement of the orbital angular
momentum states of photons